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0. W. GILMAN & R.WEIKER. HAT ROLL PRESSI'NG MACHINE.

No. 297,984. Patented'May 6, 1884.

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CHARLES WILLIAM GILMAN AND RAYMOND VVEIKER, OF MEDFIELD, MASS.

HAT-ROLL-PRE SSING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,984, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed February 27, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. GILMAN and RAYMOND WEIKER, of Medlield, county of Norfolk,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hat-Roll-Pressing Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In this our invention the hat, the brim of which is to be pressed to finish the roll, is 'placed upon a rotating heated block or iron connected with a rotating shaft, and a presser, shaped. at its edge to enter the concaved por r 5 tion of the rollof the brim, holds the convexed or outer side or face of the roll of the brim down in the peripheral groove in the said block or iron, as will be described.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation and partial section a hat-roll-pressing machine embodying our improvements, Fig. 2 being a gransverse vertical section thereof on line w x,

The frame-work A, of suitable construction to sustain the working parts, has applied to it the main shaft B, having a band-pulley, b,

by which to be rotated in the usual manner.

The shaft B, at its front end, has attached to it a hollow cylinder 0, which receives a gaspipe, D, supplied with gas from a suitable reservoir, the said pipe being preferably arranged therein,as shown, and provided'wit-h a number of orifices or gas-exits to deliver the same ignited against the cylinder, so as to heat by 3 5 conduction the metallic block or iron E,which is secured, in the present instance, in front of the cylinder and on the hub 0 thereof by means of the annulus a and set-screws 0 the said block or iron E havingla peripheral groove, 6, 40 of a form to give proper curvature to the outer convex face or outer side of the roll of a hat brim.

The metallic presser G, having its periphery shaped to fit the peripheral groove in the iron E, and being small enough to enter the inner side of the roll of the brim, is providedrwith a sleeve, 9, having a toothed or cogged disk or gear, g, at its inner end. The presser and its sleeve are loosely held by washerh and screw h upon the rock-shaft H, so as to be free to rotate thereon. The shaftHhas two eccentrics,

I, attached to it, which enter. suitable bearings in the frame-work, the said shaft being also provided with a suitable hand-wheel, J, by which it may be partially rotated, together with the said eccentrics I, so that the latter act to cause the shaft to rise and fall. and during the latter movement the presser G, placed withi'n the roll of the hatbrim, forces the latter down into the peripheral groove of and in contact with the heated rotary iron, the pressure being more or less, according to the extent to which the said shaft is turned. When the shaft H is forced down, as described, the toothed or cogged disk on the sleeve 9 is brought into engagement with the teeth or cogs a, formed on the cylinder 0, as shown, whereupon the said cylinder and iron E carry with them the.

presser G.

The disk 9' and teeth 0 may be omitted, as

without them the presser G will for the most roll of a hat-brim, and adapted to hold the convexed or outer side or face of said roll down into the peripheral groove of the block or iron, in combination, as and for the purpose'specified.

2. In a hat-roll-pressing machine, a heated block or iron connected with a rotating shaft and having a peripheral groove, and a presser shaped at its edge to enter the concaved portion of the roll of a hat brim, and adapted to hold the outer surface or face of said roll down into the peripheral groove of the block or iron, combined and arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with a block or iron connected with a rotating shaft and having a peripheral groove, of a presser connected with a shaft adapted to rise and fall, as set forth, said presser being arranged above the block or connected with a rotating shaft and having a peripheral groove, of a presser connected with E and free to be rotated upon a shaft adapted to I rise and fall, as set forth, and provided with a sleeve encircling the presser-shafts, and having a toothed disk or gear, and suitable gear mechanism attached to or moved in unison with the bl ock-shaft with which the toothed disk m shes upon the downward movement of the pressershaft, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of 20 two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES WILLIAM GILMAN. RAYMOND WEIKER. Witnesses:

J EREMIAH B. HALE, A. M. CODDING. 

